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 Further notes on prophecies [Yahuda Ms. 10c]Yahuda Ms. 10'Out of Mr Garret's discourse concerning Antichrist' [Yahuda Ms. 10a]

Notes on prophetic works, principally Daniel, in English with some Latin. Includes two projected lists of titles (the relationship of which to the rest of the document is at best tenuous), as follows:

(i) [This list occurs twice, at separate points, in slightly variant versions, of which the first is cited here.]

'Sect. 1. De Captivitate Babylonica septuaginta annorum.

Sect. 2. De duplici Ezra ac duplici Neemiah deq[ue] singuloru[m] scriptis

Sect. 3. De tempore ædificati Templi

Sect. 4. De temporibus Ezræ junioris et Neemiæ junioris.

Sect. 5. Expositio 70 Hebdomadu[m]

Sect. 6. Expositio dierum 2300

Sect. 7. Expositio dierum 1260, 1290, 1335.'

(ii) 'De Prophetijs Danielis Liber

Cap. 1/ Chronologia regum Babyloniæ, & Captivitatis 70 annoru[m]

Cap. 2/ Chronologia librorum Ezræ & Nehemiæ

Cap. 3/ Expositio Visionis Hebdomadum septuaginta

Cap. 4/ Expositio Visionis quatuor Bestiarum

Cap. 5/ Expositio Visionis Arietis & Hirci

Cap. 6/ Expositio Visionis de scriptura veritatis'

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This passag prophesy I have set down at large because itthis together and what & the followsing to yethe end chapters of Isaiah answers fully to yethe prophesy of yethe new Ierusalem. For here by calling this people yethe wife of yethe Lord & describing her as an holy & peaceable city built of pretious stones & inheriting the nations you may know ytthat she is yethe new Ierusalem yethe Lambs wife. By her being returned from captivity, her inhabiting yethe desolate cities, her her reigning over & inheriting the nations & by their making war upon her by weapons formed by the smith you may know ytthat she is a city of mortals, & not a city not litterally formed of jewels but mystically put for yethe whole nation of yethe Iews flourishing in peace & righteousness & gloriously reigning over yethe nations: of wchwhich reign the For jewells are a type of dominion regal dignity & glory as you may understand by yethe Prophesy of the whore of BaylonBabylon adorned wthwith Gold & jewels. And by many expressions you may understand that her kingdome re she is to continue & reighn eter for ever. The hill mountains & hills shall depart but she shall continue. As god has sworn ytthat yethe waters of Noah shall never return to destroy her so he has sworn that he will never destroy destroy her by any other kind of wrath or rebuke. The mountains and hills shall depart but his kindness to her shall have no end nor his covenant of peace with her be removed be ever removed. She is so far from ending with yethe millennium that the time of her captivity wchwhich is almost 2000 years being compared with the time of her flourishing reign wchwhich is to follow it, is represented as as moment of Gods wrath for a moment to his everlasting kingdness. And if she out lives yethe day of judgment & millennium in so vast a disproportion of time & her end is no where described in yethe Scriptures we may well conclude wthwith Luke that of this kingd Ieremy that it this Kingd shall last as long as yethe ordinances inof yethe sun moon & stars, with Daniel & Iohn that it shal stand for ever & ever & with Luke ytthat it shall have no end. This was Gods promise to covenant wthwith Abraham 1v The wnwhen he promised that heis seed should inherit yethe land of Canaan forever & on this promis was founded the religion of yethe Iews as on ytthat religion is founded ytethe of yethe religion of yethe Christians & therefore this promis proint is of moment & ought to be understood by all men.

In yethe next place I would observe out of yethe Prophets that in yethe end of yethe present world when Christ shall come to judge yethe quick & dead, at the quick to be then judged are the people of this kingdom both Iews & hGentiles. Daniel tells us ytthat at yethe end of yethe great tribulation (wchwhich I told you was the final persecution of Antichrist signified in yethe Apocalyps by yethe harvest & wchwhich Matthew describes to be immediately before the smiting darkingning of the terrestrial sun mooon & starrs sof the nations & appearing coming of yethe son of man in yethe clouds to judgment) the people of yethe Iews shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in yethe book & ytthat at yethe same time many of those that sleep in yethe dust shall atewake some to everlasting life & others to everlasting contempt., Here is yethe judgm & ytthat he among yethe rest shall at ytthat time stand in his lot. Here is yethe judgment of both quick & dead. For yethe Book here mentioned is yethe book of life one wchwhich yethe both tis the gr quick & dead are now opened in yethe judgment of both now opened in judgment as you may understand by comparing this place wthwith such another in yethe Apocalyps. where tis said that there shall no wise enter into the new Ierusalem any thing that defileth or worketh abomination or a lye but they wchwhich are written in yethe Lambs book of life. Apoc 21.27. Theis book of life was a befo oppened before in yethe general judgment of yethe & all the dead who were not found written in this book were there cast into yethe Lake of fire Apoc 20.15. Here in yethe same day of judgment none the 2r living are also judged out of yethe same book of life & those only admitted into yethe new Ierusalem whose names are written therein. And as at this time there is a salvation of some of yethe dead from yethe lake of fire so also thethere is a salvation of some of the living For the na as well Gentiles as Iews. For yethe nations of them wchwhich are save saved shall walk in the light of yethe new Ierusalem & the Kings of yethe earth do bring their glory & honour into it Apoc 21.24. When Christ comes to judge yethe dead, he comes also to r wthwith his saitssaints to smite the nations wthwith his two edged sword & to rule yemthem nations wthwith a rod of iron Apoc 19 15 & at that time gives his saints power over the nations & as yethe vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers Apoc 19.15 & 2.27. For And At that time he shall rule th send forth his Angels & they shall gather out of his kingdom whatsoever all things that offend & them wchwhich do iniquity & shall cast them into a lake furnace of fire Matt where shall be wailing & gnashing of teeth & then (as Daniel also expresseth ex shall yethe righteous shine forth as yethe sun in yethe Kingdom of their father Matt 143.41. Dan. 12. These are the nations of them wchwhich are saved For For the Kingdom of Christ where the wicked were & out of wchwhich yethe Angels gathered them is dou was doubtles on earth & the rest of who remained in it were the nations of them wchwhich are saved, For they are saved that is from yethe lake of fire. In In First yethe dead in Christ are raidsed the yethe living as many as are not found written in yethe book of life are cast into yethe lake of fire & yethe rest are either who are saved are according to their various merits partly changed & caught up to meet yethe Lord at his comigng (Matt. 24.31. 1 Thess. 4.16.) & partly left in that kingdom of mortals on earth wchwhich Christ ruis to rule wthwith a rod of Iron. AnAnd this 2v I take to be yethe division of yethe great city into three partparts (Apoc 16) & yethe judgment of both quick & dead at yethe coming & Kingdom of Christ of 2 Tim. 4.1 which being an Article of faith ought to be well considered & understood.

Herto We have hitherto considered yethe new Ierusalem as a city of mortals only but whilst the cChrist rules them nations wthwith a rod of iron & gives power over them nations to yethe sons of yethe resurrection ch 2.26 & makes them kings over yethe earths ch. 1.6 & 5.10. & gives them to eat of yethe tree of life wchwhich is in yethe midst of the Paradise of God & ch Ch 2.7 & & to enter in through yethe gates into yethe city ch. 2.7 & 22.14, & writes upon them the name of the city of God the new Ierusalem wchwhich cometh down out of heaven ch 3: is this city must be understood to comprehend as well Christ & the Childrēen of yethe resurrection as yethe race of mortal Iews on earth. Tis the It signifies yethe body politique of all those who have dominion over the nations whether they be yethe saints in heaven or their mortal vicegerents on eathearth. And therefore yethe Apostle Paul in his epistle to yethe Hebrews chap. 11 understands it of yethe Saints in heaven, saying that they all died of in faith not having received yethe hpromisses but having received seen them afar off & that that they sought a heavenly contry & God had prepared for them a city & for us also that they wthwith out us should not be made perfect. ✝ Heb Yet are you not to conceive that Christ & the children of yethe resurrection shall reign over mortalls after yethe manner of mortal Kings or convers wthwith mortals as mortals do wthwith one another. This But rather as Christ aftter his resurrection continued for some time on earth invisible to mortalls unless upon ciertain occasions when he thought fit to shew himself appear to to to his disciples: so it is to be conceived that at his second coming he & yethe children of yethe resurrection shall reign invisibly without appearing to mortals unless upon extraordinary occasion invisibly unless when they think fit to appear. And as Christ after some stay on earth ascended

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The four horsmen wchwhich appear at opening the first four seals have been explained by Mr Mead, & I agree w excepting that I had rather continue the third to the end of the reign of the three Gordians & Philip the Arabian, & those being kings from the south, & begin the fourth with the reign of Decius & continue it till the reign of Dioclesian. For thitherto the Empire continued undivided in an undivided monarchical form. Dioclesian divided it between himself & Maximanus & it continued in that divided state till the victory of Constantine the great over Licinius, wthwith This victory wchwhich put an end to heathen persecutions set on foot by Dioclesian & described at the opening of the fift seal. & The same Victory began the fall of the heathen Empire described at the opening of the sixt. And the visions of this Seal continued till after the reign of Iulian the Apostate ,(he being he being (a heathen Emperor & & reigning over the whole Roman Empire.) ,) but not till the rise of the ten horns of Daniels fourth Beast & ended not long after because Iulian was the last heathen Emperor

– & by the Dragons going from the Woman to persecute that remnant & by two Beasts arising the one out of the sea to reprentrepresent the Empire of the Latines, the other out of the earth to represent the Church of the Greeks. And that the Dragon men who latter Beast causeth the earth & them that dwell therein (the people of the Greeke Empire) to worship [the authority of] the first Beast & to set up an Image to him & cause that all men wchwhich could speak & cause both speak & cause by excommunication that all that will not worship the Image should be mystically killed. And he causeth excommunicateth men so that no man may buy or sell save he that had the mark of the Beast, or the name, or the number of his name,. And hence forward all the twelve tribes of Israel fall away to the worship of the Beast & his Image so& worship take possession of the outward court of the second Temple, except the 144000 who are sealed wthwith the seale of God in their forheads & stand on mount Sion with the Lamb in the new court or measured Court of them the second Temple, & appear to Iohn as standing upon the sea of glass, while the seven Trumpets sound, the seven Trumpets sound thunders utter their voices & the seven Vialls of wrath are poured out at the sacrifices of the seven days of the feast of Tabernacles. In the mean time the Woman acquires a temporal dominion & thereby becomes a horn of the Beast represented in Daniel by the eleventh horn of his fourth Beast, & with a look more stout then the rest reigns over them, & is therefore represented in Iohn as sitting upon the Beast, that is, reigning over him. And all the time of her reign 3v reign, the two Witnesses prophesy in sackcloth.

The thre first Beasts of Daniel had their lives prolonged after their dominions were taken away, & therefore the two first Beasts still signify the nations of Chaldea Media & Persia, his third Beast signif still signifies the nations of Greece Egypt, Syria & Asia on this side Euphrates, & his fourth Beast res still signifies the nations of Europe on this side Greece. But in Iohns Prophesy the nations beyond Euphrates are not considered, unless in mentioning the third part of the Earth or Sea or rivers or Sun stars or starrs or Sun & Moon; for these expressions relate to one of the three parts now described

The third & fourth Beast of Daniel – – – – but wthwith this difference that Iohn Daniel / And hen

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In the Prophesy the affairs of the Church begin to be described at the opening of the fift seal, & here the Interpretation begins at the same time with the vision of the Church in the form of a Woman in heaven. [There she has tribulation tenn days & here she is pained in travel.] This interpretation proceeds down to the day of judgment represented by an harvest & vintage & then returns back to the times of opening the seventh seal & interprets the sounding prophesy of the seven Trumpets by the pouring out seven Vials of wrath,. Then it returns back again to the times of measuring the Temple & Altar & of the Gentiles worshipping in the outward Court & the Beast killing the witnesses in the streets of the great city & interprets those things by the Vision of a Woman sitting on the Beast & proceeds downwards in the Interpretation downwards to the resurrection of the dead. The whole Prophesy of the Book of the Law is therefore upon eating the Book repeated & end interpreted & enlarged in thiese Visions /

The writing within was seen at the opening of the seals & that on the backside when all the seals were opened & the book unfolded.

(The) book this Book was written within & on the backside, & the writing was seen within at the opening of the seals, & the book being now opened & unfolded the writing became visible also on the backside /

For the three first Beasts of Daniel had their lives prolonged after their dominions were taken away & therefore belong not to the body of the fourth. He only stamped them with his foneot. And the Goat grew mighty after the reign of his four horns but not by his own power. I place the body of the fourth Beast on this side Greece because the three first Beasts /

For the fourth horsman sat upon a plalepale hors & his name was Death & hHell &followed after with him & power was given then to kill unto the fourth part of the earth with the sword & with hungarfamin & with the plague & with the Beasts of the earth or armies of the invaders & Rebels, & such were the times during all this intervall. Hithertho the Roman Empire continued in an undivided Monarchical form, except rebellions. But Dioclesian divided it.

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– vite potuit obtineri ut Heron senior non inter biothanatos reputatus etiam memoria & oblatione pausantium judicaretur indignus. Cassian Collat 2. Cap. 5 boithati sunt qui se violenter occidūunt, pausantes qui mortui.

Cur Impensius jejunantibus vehementiores pugnat corporis excitentur. Cassian Collat. 21 cap. 35. & Collat 22. cap. 2

Monachus convertat mentem et oculos in alterum venerabiliorum & meliorem, studeatque facere quod de beato Antonio legitur. Qui cum plurimos fratres adiret visendi gratia & hunc atque illum viderent boni aliquid agentem id statim tanquam flosculum colligebat & in pectore recondebat, ab hoc quidem mansuetudinem ab illo humilitatem ab alio quietem accipiens et ita semetipsum quasi virtutum omnium exemplar constituebat. Dorotheus Abbas De IstitutInstitut. Fratr. Doctr 16. in Bibl. S. Patr.

Dorotheus obedientiam cæcam et alijs præscribit ib. Doctr 17 et ipse juvenis magistro suo præstiti ib. Doctr 5.

Ruffin relates how one of yethe fathers saw in a vision four orders of men stand before God, the first or lowest of those who gave praised God for his blessings, yethe next of those who were hospitable to their neighbours, yethe third of those who lived in solitudes wthwithout seeing men & yethe fourth of those who were obedient & subject to yethe fathers, And this order he represents yethe highest of yethe four leaving their own wills & depending upon yethe will of yethe father who commands them. And this he makes yethe highest order order of yethe four & to be rewarded wthwith yethe greater glory then yethe rest. Ruffin vit. patr. l 2 c 140.

Bli Absolute obedience commended Ruffin. v. patr. l 2. c 145, 149, 150

The souls of several dying Monks seen carried up to heaveheaven Vita Pachomij apud Rosweydum &c.

Dixit Abbas Antonius: Sicut pisces si tardaverint in sudo4v sudo moriuntur: ita et monachi tardantes extra cellam aut cum viris sæcularibus immorantes a quietis proponis revolvuntur. Oportet ergo sicut piscis in mari ita et nos ad cellam recurrere ne forte foris tardantes obliviscamur interioris custodiæ. Pallad. c 27. Auct. Græc. Lib. 2. C. 1 This is taken out of Antony's life neare yethe end. And yethe Græk Palladius had it from Cronius yethe servant an attendant of Antony.

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Let yethe argument for Ezra's being in yethe latter Artaxerxes Longimanus hindring the temple building of yethe walls be managed thus.

First shew out of Ctesias that Cyrus to his sons enjonedenjoined immunity from taxes. Then out of Herodotus lib 3 that Smerdes in yethe very beginning of his reign enjoi decreed an immunity from taxes for 3 years. Were this a relaxing from taxes wchwhich had been before it would be to orour purpose as shewing there were no taxing in Smerdes time; but yet, if Herodotus may interpret himself, it was only a continuing yethe immunity wchwhich had been in Cyrus & Cambyses time. Then shew out of Herodotus lib 3 how Darius Histaspis was the first imposer of taxes & how for this end he divided the kingdome into Satrapies & instituted officers & How they from hence yethe Persians calld Cyrus patrem Cambyses Dominūum & Darius κάπηλον institorem a huckster. And shew how Suidas also interprets thus this aAdagy. Then shew how yethe Satrapas of Sardes (by Herodotus relation) first laid in this Darius time taxes on the Iones. Then how Strabo lib 15 p 735 out of Polycritus lib relates the same thing of Darius. Lastly out of Plutarch how moderate Darius was in yethe first taxing. And then conclude how impossible it is for Artaxerxes Ezra 4 in whose days there were such various high & high taxing to be either Smerdes or any other person before Darius. Let this be the last of yethe arguments on this subject, & then conclude that the last vers of yethe 4th chapter is yethe beginning of a new narration & ought to be yethe 1st vers of yethe 5t chapter, & to be thus translated.

Illis diebus cessaverat opus domus Dei in Ierusalēem et cessans fuserat ad usque secundum annūum regni Darij regis Persarum. For the Hebrew word באדיז tunc, is of such a generall signification that it sometimes signifies eternity, & may therefore may be here naturally enough interpreted generally of yethe times past without referring it to A Conceiving the story in the of both yethe Temple & City to be brought down into in the 4th chapter through the reign of Cyrus Darius Assuerus & Artaxerxes the last hinderer of them & then after the history of their hindring is finished, the history of their the author returns back to tell the history of their success & finishing.

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NB. Nebuchadnezzar et Ahasuerus Assuerus conjunctim expugnant & evertunt Nineven (Tobit 14. 15) Illūum Assuerum et Græci nominant Cyax Expugnatāam vero Babyloneam a Cy-axere Rege Medorum seribunt omnes. Scilicet Cy-Axeres idem sonat ac Princeps Axeres Assuerus nam Cy Persice Princeps est et Axsceeres vel Achsweres vel Assuerus idem est nomen. Porrò Vxorem Nebuchanezzaris in Media educatatem fuitta docet (Beros. apud Ioseph con. Ap.) adeoque probabiliter aut sororrsoror erat aut filia Assueri. Et hinc Meorum bis in Babylonia.

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Sect 1. De ann Captivitate Babylonica Septiuaginta annorum.Sect 2. De duplici Ezra ac duplici trNeeemiah, deque singulorūum scriptisSect. 3. De tempore ædificati TempliSect. 4. De temporibus Ezræ junioris et Neemiæ junioris.Sect 5 Expositio 70 Hebdomadūum.Sect 6 Expositio dierum 2300Sect 7 Expositio dierum 1260, 1290, 1335.
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8v The Analogy between sacred & profane history

1 Babylon taken by stratagem Ier 50.24 & 51.12, 41. By draining Euphrates. Herodot l. 1. Xenophon.

2. The walls demolished by Cyrus Ier 50.15 & 51.44, 58. Berosus apud Iosephūum l 1 cont. App & & forte apud Euseb præp. Evang. l 9.

3. Overthrown in Battel they reture to strong holds & leave the enemy in full possesion of the field wthwithout daring to make further head against him, Ier 51.30 Berosus or Megasthenes Item Xenophon qui inter fabulas suas quædam habet lineamenta veritatis.

4. The King of Babylon did not retreat to Babylōon but to another hold distant from it Ier 51.31, 32. namely to Borsippa, Berosus

5. It was a year after this victory before Babylon was taken Ier. 521.46. A long time, Herodot. A year or more Xenophon.

6. It was taken in sommer Ier 51.39. when Euphrates was capable of being drained Herod Xenophōon.

7 At a time when the Babylonians were in drink Ier 51.39, 57. In a feast day when the inhabitants were dissolute Herodot & forte Xenophon.

6 8. Describitur etiam occupāndi modus סקצה וחמעברוח νחפשו Vrbs capta curret nuncius et annunciet regi quod capta est civitas ejus de extremo (id est de extremo mœnibus seu de aditu per mœnia) ubi terminiabantur ad fluvium) & והסעברוח גחפשו & transitus seu vada ejus occupanta sunt & arundines incensæ sunt ignei, & viri bellatores conturbati sunt. Ier 51.31, 32.

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1. That Nebuchadnezzar helped Assuerus i.e Cy-Axeres yethe King of the Medes in destroying Nineve (Tobit. 14.15. Nebuchadnezzars wife was a Mede, for whose sake he built the Hartæ pensules, she delighting in prospects such as were in her own countrey. And That Nebuchadnezzar had a great strength of Medes in his Army (See Berosus & Abydenus ex Megasthene in Euseb. Præp. l 9 & Ioseph. cont App & Hist l And this gave occasion to Darius yethe Medes conspiracy.

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2 That Iosephus compounding his narration out of Daniel & yethe writings of Berosus & mistaking them both, has was yethe first ytthat confounded & perplext yethe history of those times & gave occasion to yethe erroneous opinions wchwhich yethe generality of divines have from him taken up: & therefore to free our selves from his ignis fatuus we are to have recours to Daniel ,& Berosus, &themselves.

3. The Athenæus lib. 12 ex Beroso narrat Βήρωσοι δ᾽ἐν πρώτῳ Βαβυλωνικῶν, τῷ Λώῳ, φηνὶ, ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ, ἀγεσθαι ἑορτὴν &c In yethe mar Apud Brissoniūum p 198. i.e A feast iIn Babylon yethe 16th of yethe month Lous (wchwhich is yethe 6Month Tamncuz of yethe Chaldaic or Iewish or 4h month of yethe Iewish year counted from Nisan & agrees nearly to our Iuly) a feast was held for five days together, wherein the servants ruled over their masters as in yethe Saturnalia. And theis seems to have been their principal feast being yethe only feast mentioned by authors. Now this being so fit for Cyrus purpose, the river being lowest & yethe waters slowest, the feast of some days duration & of perfect liberty for revelling & debauchery, what time should Cyrus choose for yethehis stratagem but this. To this no dowubt Ieremy God alludes in Ieremy 51.39, 57 when he says, In their heate I will give them drink, & will make them drunken, that then ut spoiantur & dormiant somnum sempiternūum et non consurgant.

4 Strabo lib 16 Geogr. p 740 scribit Euphratem sub initio æstatias ob nives in Armenia liquefactas inundare, ita ut arva necesse sit arva inundare nisi aqua canalibus & fossis diverteretur et cohiberetur Dein quod per ꝑper æstatem fossæ arefactæ flumen quoque siccant: Quod subsidens derivationibus non potest tempestivis sufficere, quibus regio perusta & siccitate squallens per æstatem plurimum eget. Hac igitur tempestate cCyrus urbēem occupavit.

5 Cyrusm a Tomyride & Massagetis cæsūum historia suspecte fidei est siquidem Cyri in Perside honorificè sepulti extabat tumulus in Prios tempore Alexandri. Sed neque de morte Cyri consentiunt inter se Herodotus Ctesias et Xenophon. Quare ex more more mortis argumentum de tempore ejus nullum est.

6 Quod Canon juxta tres omnes a editiones Scaligeri dat 8 annos filijs NebuchanezariNebuchadnezzari. Et ita legit Petavius in libris dissertationibus suis, quamvis in fi calce Rationarij correuctūum ad ad numeros Berosi correctūum edidit juxta cod. Angl Theonis. et Edit. Iuxtura illūum canonem igitur 7v victor expugnatio Babylonis in annūum 70 incidet. But here first shew the 70 years by Berosus compute, adding a years interregnum thereto out of Ier 51.46. Then shew it out of Xenophon who makes Cyrus to reignedhave reigned after yethe taking of Babylon full seven years & died in yethe eighth. Then note how the Canon agrees wthwith Berosus in assigning 17 years to D Nabonelus & accordingly terminating his reign anno Nabonassaris 2 making the year of Nabonassar 4210 to be yethe first year of his reign. And how he dissagrees frōom him in making yethe sons of Nebuchadnezar reign 8 years: I mean in yethe Canons published by Scaliger & followed by Petavius in his writings For ytthat at yethe end of Petavius riRationarium seems corrected by Berosus, & yet wants yethe time of Laborosoarchadus reign wchwhich being but of 9 months Ptolomy includes (as his custome is) in yethe reign years of yethe former king. And then noteing how thiese differences isare a nicety not inconsiderable, add the calculation by yethe reign of yethe kings of Tyre.

7 Out of Ezek 29.1, 6, 7 shew that Pharaoh's expedition to help yethe besieged Iews, & consequently yethe sabbatic year was yethe 9th year of Zedekiah.

8 out of yethe Iews tradiontradition in Ierom shew that during Nebuchadnezars madness Ewilmerodach administred the kingdom & was afterwdward put into prison wthwith Iehojakim for it & upon his fathers death brought out Iehojakim & therefore begain to reign wthwith his release. See Marshams chronology.

9 As Nabonnedus is called a Mede by Megasthenes so in yethe title of yethe Canon is of yethe kings of yethe Medes & Persians Assyrians & Medes & then at Cyrus yethe title is changed & begins yethe catalogue of yethe Kings of Persia.

10 All yethe Canons have been tampered with. That of Petavius has too much was co is to conformable to Petavius his sentiments wasseemes corrected by himsombody, nor does he use it in his writings. The Ecclesiastic Canon has 31 for 9 in the reign of Cyrus & yethe Genethlic of sScaliger has 17 years added to yethe reign of Nabonnedus & the Ecclesiastic 17 to as many taken from yethe years of Nabonassar & Nadius together, both by nsome Ecclesiastic to make out 70 years from yethe yethe burning of Ieruslaem to yethe first year of Cyrus. Take away those from both those 17 spurious years rectify these years & from yethe Re & yethe 2 canons will agree7r agree & run thus, Nabonassar 1425 24 25 Nardius 8 16 33 Chinzerus & P. 5 21 38 Dilulæus 5 26 43 &c Nabopolasser 21 124 141 Nabuchadnezar 43 167 184 Iloaradamus 3 170 189 Nerigasolorus 5 175 192 Nabonadius 17 209 209 Cyrus 9 218 218
at least it Which differs from And this agreeing every where to yethe truth with in a year I take to be yethe genuine canon of Ptol.

In yethe 5 years of Nerigassolorus are included the 9 months of Laborosordachus, for so Ptolomy for brevity sake does all along where the any king reigned not a yeare as you may see in yethe Persian kings where Smerdes, Atabanus &Xerxes 2dus & Sogdian are omitted & their years added to yethe former kings. So then the compute of Berosus & Ptolomy differs only in this that Be Ptolomy gives 3 years to Iloaradæmus, Berosus only 2 the occasion of wchwhich difference might be that he dreignd about 2 12 . But this is not worth disputing about. I shal rather note out of Ier 51.46 that whereas Berosus makes the 17th year of Nabonnedus and wthwith his overthrow in yethe field by Cyrus & Ptolomy ends his reign then ther it was still another year before Babylon was taken. &c And so yethe taking of yethe City will fall in Iuly ann Nabonass 244 Iul 69 12 years after yethe servitutde of Iehojakim. Then confirm this by the testimony of Xenophon who reccons 7 full years or better from yethe taking of Babylon to yethe death of Cyrus. Lastly confirm it out of yethe Tyrrine rec Phœnician record in Iosephus, cont. App. l 1.

11 Note that yethe records about these times are transcribed entirely in Marsham's Chronology.
9r For yethe 70 years, & chronology of yethe Temple, determin only 1st the reign of Cyrus Cambyses & Darius. 2dly That by the eclipses & Haggai 1.1 & 2.1, 10. Zech 1.1, 7 Darius began between yethe 24th day of yethe 11th month & Apr 25. Smerdes was slain currente mense regni octavo (Herod) l 1) & lCambyses reigned 7y 5mens (Herod) therefore Cyrus was slain in spring before yethe end of April An. Iul. Per. 4185. Which is agreeable to confirmed by wtwhat Herodotus relates vizt ytthat he was slain in yethe begining of a northern expeditiōon in yethe Scythian territory as soon as he had past yethe river 3 That yethe years of Zedekiah began in yethebetween yethe 5t & 10hi month ytthat is in Autumn & yethe 10th year of Zedekiah was sabbatical & consequently began in Autumn An. I. P 4123. proved by 4 That yethe 4thly that yethe captivity of Iehojakin fell in Autumn An. I. P 4114. 5 Count from thence 70 years to yethe solution & the time of their journey one year more after they were at Ierusalem & as much as to yethe 2d month of yethe second year (Ezra 3.8) & you will fall on sprin spring An. Iul. Per 1486. a year after Cyrus death for yethe time of laying yethe foundatiōon And if you strain & detract a year from yethe seventy yet ywill yo not yethe foundation be laid before Cyrus death. How then could yethe nations after this combine & hinder yethe building all yethe days of Cyrus. Ezra 94.5. 6 This opinion has no other Foundation but Ezekiels using yethe Epocha of of Iehojakins captivity, wchwhich yet he does becaus he himself was then made captive 7 But Ieremiah is more to be regarded who gav at yethe same time he gave yethe prophesy of yethe 70 years subjection of his nation to yethe king of Babylon, sayd This is yethe foirst year of Nebuchadnezzar. Ier 25.1, 11, 12. For that was not yethe first year of Nebuchadnezzars reign over Babylon but his first year over Iudah. And therefore this way of reconning yethe years of Nebuchadnezzar being unusual, Ieremy never uses it alone but – – – – as often as he uses it adds yethe years of yethe King of Iudah to teach how he woud have the people his way of reconning. Ier. 25.1 & 32.1 & 52 5, 12. For in chap 52.28, 29, 30 where he uses yethe vulgar reconning he puts only the years of Nebuchadnezzar. 9v 89 Ptolomy in his canon according to all editions of it but yethe depraved Ecclesiastic one puts Cyrus to have reigned 9 years in Babylon & according to wchwhich recconing he took Babylon Anno Iul. Per. 4176. And accordingly in all editions of his canon even in yethe ecclesiastic one puts yethe first year of Cyrus in Babylonia is anno Nabonass 410 wchwhich agrees to anno Iul. Per 4176. The same is confirmed by Berosus, who reccons 9 Again Both Ptolomy & Berosus & Ptolomy records that Nabopolassar & Nebuchadnezar together reigned 64 y. reigned 64 years, Nebuchanezar 43 years Ewilmerodach & yethe sunson in law & grandson of Nebuchadnezar 6 y. 9 m & Nabonnedus 17 years, & between Nebuchadnezzar & Nabonedus gives 6 years & 9 months to Ewilmerodach & yethe sons of Nebuchadnezar & Ptolomy being here corrupted gives in some editions 8 in others 6 years & leaves out Ptolomy is here corrupted in some editions having more in others less but yet differs not above a year & 23 months from To which recconning Ptolomy is consentaneous enough this only excepted that Ptolomy in scaligers editions of him adds a year more to the reign of Nebuchadnezzars children. The whole summ is 87 years & 9 months. Now the first year of Nabopolasser fell in (some part of it at least) wthwith Ann I. P. 4089 as is determined by an eclips made by the babylonians Chaldeans in his 5t year anno Nabonassari 127 Athyr 27 sequante 28 hora 5 50′ a media nocte Babylone as Ptolomy records. For this eclips agrees to an. Per. Iul. 4093 Apr. 22. Count from this first year 86 years 89 months & you will end in Ann. I. P. 4176 as above for yethe end of Nabonnedus &c 10 Now Babylon being taken by draining Euphrates as Herodotus relates it was most probably done in the dryest yweather when waters use to be lowest, suppose about August. August anno 4176 is just 70 years after August 4106 when Nebuchadnezzar first subjected Ne Iehojakin in & yethe Iews Dan. 1.1. 2 Chron 36.6, 7. 2 King. 24.5. 1.8 Which WhichThe 70 years you may also also reccon thus From Iehojakims servitude in autumn anno 3o ejus finiente to Iehojakins mense quinto finiente 8y. m 0m Ier 52.31 From thence to yethe beginning of Ewilmerodach (in spring mense 12mo fin. 36y. 7m From thence to yethe begningbeginning of Nabonnedus (Ptol in Can.) 8y. o0m T The reign of Nabonnedus (Ptol in Can. Berosus.) 17y m That of Cyrus More like after the on midsummer midsummer 0y 69y 9m That of Cyrus 0. 3m More till autumn August or September 0. 10m 0. 5m 70.y 0. 9. But to give you a more ex Suppose then yethe deceree came out in Autumn & yethe Iews journey the spring following. Note. EAbydenus (or Megasthenes) apud Euseb. Præp. l 9 relates how Nebuchadnezzar had a great force of Medes in his army & his wife was a Mede. Did not this give occasion to Nabonnedus conspiracy. 10r De Prophetijs Danielis Liber Cap 1 Chronologia Regum Babyloniæ, & Captivitatis 70 annnorūum. Cap 2 Chronologia Librorum Ezræ & Nehemiæ. Cap 3 Expositio visionis Hebdomadum septuaginta. Cap 4 Expositio Visionis quatuor Bestiarum. Cap 5 Espositio visionis Arietis & Hirci. Cap 6 Expositio visionis de scrriptura veritatis. The larsst argument for Artaxerxes bein Ezra 4.7 being Artaxerxes Longimanus is made strong by Ctesias writing that Cyrus commanded his son Tanyoxortes to lay no taxes on his subjects, &for there is the same reason of both his sons. byalso by Strabo's relating (p 735 lib 15) out of Polycritus that Darius Longimanus (whe should say Histaspis τον δὲ διατάξαντα τοὺς φόρους ε Δαρειον εἱναι, τὸν μαχρόχειρα. he means he Darius macrocheir (he means Hiystaspis) first instituted tribute. Herodotus more at large lib 3 tells us how he instituted tribute & divided the empire into Provinces & that what till his tineme there were nothing but gifts & confirms his relation wthwith this notable character that they Persians Called Cyrus a Father, Cambyses a master, Darius κάπηλον a Huckster a Chapman: the first for his affectionate moderate government, the second for his lordlines & tyranny the third for his instituting taxes. as you may see explaind by Suidas in Cyrus. And yet in theis first institution of taxes Darius was so moderate that Plutarch in Apopthhthegm. scribit τοὺς φορους τοῖς ὑπσηκόσις ταξας &c See Brissonius p 123. Also Herodotus in his sixt book relates how that yethe Iones rebelling againagainst Darius & being reduced again to obedience by Darius Artaphernes Sardium Præses per Parasangas (ita enim Persæ tricena stadia appellabant) conferre jussit tributa, quæ uti ab Artapherne imposita fuerant &c. see Brissonius ib. So then the Artaxerxes who exacted tribute so much Ezra 4 must be after this Darius. And for what Herodotus says that Smydes grantesed 10v an immunity from taxes for 3 years that is (if you will let Herodotus interpret himself) the meaning must only be that he continued the favour of Cyrus & Cambyses for so long In adjusting yethe story of Ezra & Nehemiah, shew 1. That Nehem 8, 9, 10, 11 chap. belong to yethe times of ZrubbabelZerubbabel 2. That there are two Ezras & two Nehemiahs. 3. That yethe elder Nehem is meant in Ezra 2.2, 63. 4. That yethe elder is meant in 2 Maccab. cahap 1 & 2. 5. A Note ytthat this Nehemiah lived frōom an 1 Cyri to an 6 Darij. 6 That yethe elder Ezra is meant in 2 Ezsdras from chap 3 to the end. 7. A note to cleare yethe book of Ezra 2. 8. a note concerning yethe cannon of scripture. 8 B. The solution of yethe captivity anno 22mo Cyri. 9. The building of yethe Temple finished Anno 6to Darij Hystaspis Arg. 1. 10 Quia decreto Cyri tantum deferebatur. Arg 2 Quia Holanes (ut ait Herod.) id est Tatanai Thatanai tunc dux erat cis fluvicum. Arg 34. Quia septuagesimus annus a Templo comfbusto tunc nemodo fluxerat Zech Arg. 43 Quia tunc in vivis erant qui Templum prius viderant. Arg 5 Quia Zerubbabel, ZIeshua & Nehemiah Tirshatha ad primo anno Cyri ad sextum Darij simul regebant populūum id est per 120 annos si Darius Nothus is fuerit: Quod absurdissiumum CEst. Arg. 6 Quia filij omnium fere sacerdotum qui florebant una cum Zorobabele redibant de captivitate, florebant tempore Eias Iojakim successoris Ieshua. Ezra Nehem 12.12. 10 The return coming of Ezra & Nehemiah to Ierusalem was in yethe reign of Artaxerxes Mnemon. 1 Quia Artaxerxes11rerxes Longimanus progressus Iudæorum Iudæis adversus & progr ædif ædificium urbis & mœniorūum impedivit. 21 qQuia genealogiæ Mattaniæ Nehem 12.8, 35 & 11.17 & Ioanan Ezra 10.6 & Nehem 12.11, 22, 23 Id videntur exigere. 32 Quia secus Iohanan senem centum et triginta annorum senex fratrēem etiam senem secum de summo sacerdotion litigantem occiderit, & diutius vixerit. 43 Quia Sanballetes una cum filia ac genere in vivis erant tempore Alexandri magni Ioseph illi ipsi quos Nehemiah a se depulerat (Ioseph l. ) Nehemias etiam tempore Iaduæ et Darij Codomanni historiam scripsit. (Nehem 12.11, , 22, 23 & 13.15, 23.) 4. Quia prior Artaxerxes inhibuit ædificium. 10 10 The building of yethe city hindred in yethe reign of Artaxerxes Mnemon Longimanus. Arg 1 a serie nominum Cyri Darij Assueri & Artaxerxis: quorum Assuerus & Artaxerxies aliter applicari nequeunt 2 Quia urbis et mœniorum ædificatio posterior erat ædificatione Templi. 3 This argumen Because in this Artaxerxes time taxes were high Ezra 4.13, And yet in SmedesSmerdes time there were no taxes. Nor were there any in Cyrus or Darius time besides what free will offerings made by yethe nations to ingratiate themselves. Darius was yethe first that instituted taxes as Herodotus relates. lib 3. v. de locum p 83 & 87. Quo munus hæc argumenta valeant nil obstat præter Ezra 4.27: cujus explicatio ad finem dissertationis rejiciatur Here Here Explain Translate Ezra 4.27 Tt thus. Tunc cessaverat opus domus Dei quæ est in Ierusalem et cessans fuerat ad usque annum secundum regni Darij. And explain yethe place by taking tunc in a large sence & making yethe place a beginning of a new part narration, & compare it wthwith Nehem 13.1 where in illo die is of yethe like difficult interpretation, butand more difficult. And shew that this traslationtranslation is less absurd then to put Assuerus & Artaxerxes to be Cambyses & Smerdes. & yethe building the City & walls before the Temple was neare done. 13 Put this dilemma. Either yethe Reader beleives yethe books of Ezra & Nehemiah are come safe to orour hand or not if yethe former, then yethe places Nehem 12.11, 22, 23 are of Nehemiah's writing & so Nehemiah lived with Dari & wrote in Darius Codomannus time & consequently came to Ierusalem in yethe latter Atrtaxerxes Menemon's time: or els wchwhich is ytthat I contend for. Or els if yethe latter then let him grant yethe liberty he takes & Ile argue thus. In yethe time of Iudas Maccabeus yethe sacred books were burnt much destroyed & dispersed & recollected by Iudas 2 Macc. 2.14. And in this recollection there were some miscarriages. The prophesies of Ieremy put together not in the order of time they were writ A part of yethe prophesies of Ieremy clapt to yethe end of Zacchary's vizt from Zach 9 to yethe end as is plain by yethe stile & St Matthew's quotation Matt 27.9, 10. in the middle of the prophesies of Isa & Ier. historical fragments inserted A part of 1 Chron ch 8 from vers 29 to vers 38 clapt to yethe end of yethe geneaologies in chap 9 from vers 39 to yethe end. And a part of the book of Ezra annexed to yethe end of yethe Chronicles. And from hence perhaps yethe repeated genealogies in 1 Chron 5 & a part of yethe book of Iudges Ioshua ch 21. inserted from vers 10 to vers 39 clapt to yethe to yethe end of 1 Chron 5 Hence to yethe end of yethe continued History of yethe book of 11v Iudges might be added yethe Storys of Michah & Benjamin out of scattereddissipated papers. For yethe story of Michah belongs rather to yethe book of Ioshuah being athe history at length of the Danits taking Laish or Leshem & calling it Dan, there described in short Ios. 19.47. Iud 18.29. Hence might be yethe composure of yethe Apocryphal books of Ezdras For they are plainly nothing but yethe scattered papers of yethe two Ezra's put together by somebody that took 'em all for papers of yethe same Ezra. Hence yethe book of chronicles of yethe Kings of Israel so often quoted in yethe book of Kings, entirely lost; as also yethe books of yethe Prophets Nathan, Gad, Ahijah, Iddo, Shemajah, Iehu mentioned in yethe Chronicles. Hence yethe Genealogies written in yethe book of Kings of wchwhich mention is made in 1 Chron 9.1, are perished, & those also in H. yethe book of yethe Chronicles mentioned in Nehem 12.23. Hence to yethe 2 registers of those who returned from cap yethe people under Zerubbabel & David in 1 Chron 9 are confounded together the 2d beginning at vers 18 as if a continuation of yethe 1st, [compare vers 19 & 21 with 1 Chron 26.1, 2, 14 & ch 6.37.] Hence Might part of yethe book of Nehemiah between yethe 12th & 13th chapters be lost conteining yethe history of yethe 12 or 13 years between the dedication of yethe wall & Nehemiahs return to Ierusalem be lost:. And lastly Hence might the Register Nehem 11 wchwhich should come in in Ezra 2 between vers 69 & 70 (the words dwelt in their cities yethe 70th vers relating to it) be lost out of that book & inserted into yethe yethe book of Nehemiah together wthwith yethe last vers of chap 7 & yethe 8th 9th & 10th chapters as if they were a part of yethe history of ytthat Nehemiah though yethe 8th 9th & 10th chapters are little to yethe design of it. Lastly hence might a part of Ezra 4 from vers 6 to vers 24 be a loos record inserted th in that place to wchwhich he ytthat put yethe collected papers together knew not where better to insert.. ForAnd this is yethe more likely because it is inserted in another place of yethe history in 1 Esdras 2. & yethe History omitted there there taking in that part of yethe history Ezra. 5 & in that place there in wchwhich in Ezra it is inserted. Theho yethe book of Esdras be not authentick because made manifestly put together in a wrong order yet yethe records wchwhich were put together to compose it were doublesdoubtles authentick unless yethe story of yethe 3 young men speaking sentences be excepted For yethe rest are nothing els but fragments of yethe books of Ezra & Nehemiah wrong pu otherwise put together. Now this putting them wrong together shews ytthat yethe papers of Ezrah & Nehemiah were once dispersed & scattered. Let yethe reader therefore consider whither it be more likely that12r that yethe contextor of yethe book of Esdras, whose design was only to put scattered papers together should take out yethe story of Ahashuerus & Artaxerxes from yethe amidst of yethe record he found it in to put it in a wrong place or that yethe some other person finding this story in a loos record & not knowing should put it in where we find it in Ezra not knowing where better to dispose of it place it. For yethe story of Darius as it is in Esdras chap. 5 & 6 is natural & proper but as it is in Ezra its broke interrupted by yethe interposition of things of anther nature done in the reigns of other kings, wchwhich has hitherto so far perplext commentators & Chronologers that they can find no more com̄mmomodious explic have been fain to put to most miserable shifts to make out yethe place Make out this 4th argumtment thus. First from yethe names Assuerus & Artaxerxes shew that they are Xeres & Art. Longimanus & consequently yethe fatormer Artaxerxes being a hinderer the latter must be yethe furtherer &c. 2 Answer yethe objection frōom Ezra 4.24 by a new version of yethe place & by yethe aforesaid dilemma. 3dly confirm yethe dilemma by these argumtsments. 1st Because Darius was yethe first institutor of Taxes (&Herod l 3) & Taxes were high in yethe reign of Artaxerxes yethe hinderer Ezra 4.13. 2dly Because yethe 7 months reign of Smerdes is too short for yethe Iews news of Cambyses death to go to Babylon Susa, of Smerdes reigning to Syria, the Iews ythen to set themselves to yethe work anew, their enemies to gcombine & their letters to go to Susa, search to be made there & the Kings decre to be sent back. Nay more, the Iews wchwhich built now came were got into favour with this king & came from him (as Ezra & Nehemiah did afterwdward fmfrom yethe other Artax.) & thereupon built Ezra 4.12 The Iew For thus they describe to yethe King yethe persons they accuse. The Iews wchwhich came from thee to us are [now] come to Ierusalem Ezra 4.12. The very journey from Babylon thither was a business of 4 months (Ezra 7.9. Ezek 32.21) & from Susa more. Besides Smerdes never was at Babylon from whence the Iews went up To say nothing of yethe expression In yethe days of Art. 3dly Because yethe business was now about yethe Cyity & walls wchwhich was after yethe building of yethe Temple. 4 Because yethe Iews adversaries, Samar in Samaria were changed. nNot one name yethe same. And yet there was but 112 year between smerdes & yethe 2d year of Dar. to change ymthem. 5 Because they in Darius reign write sidly ag simply agtagainst yethe Iews referring all to Cyrus decree, taking no notice of any contrary decre not accusing them so much as accusing them of sedition: wchwhich things would have been otherwis had there been then decrees counter to Cyrus's & had they newly found the success of accusing them of sedition. 12v Sect 1. De duplici Ezra ac duplici Nehemiah: deque singulorum scriptis Sect. 2. De Tempore solutæ captivitatis imperante Cyro Sect. 3 De tempore ædificati Templi Sect 4 De temporibus Ezræ junioris et Neemiæ junioris. Sect 5 Expositio septuaginta Hebdomadum Sect 6 Expositio dierum 2300 Sect 7 Expositio dierum 1260, 1290, 1335. Nota. Ab ingressa in terram cCanaan, ad jacta fundamenta Templi Solomonis sunt 9 × 7 Hebdomades Hebdomadum annorum. Inde ad captivitatem decem Tribuum 6 × 7 × Hebd. A divisione Terræ ad encœnia Templi Solomonis 9 × 7 × Hebd. Inde ad captivitatem duorum Tribuum sub Romanis 122, 7 × Hebd. A reditu ultimo ad Messiam 7 × Hebd. Dan 8. Super urbem sacram decisæ 10, 7 × Hebd Dan 8 A vocatione Gentium acad perditionem 38, 7 × Hebd. Ab initio mundi ad finem 1000 Hebdomas millenorūum annorūum. Horum significativa Sabbatum die seu cessatio die septimo, anno septimo, anno 49nomo, & festūum Hebdomadarum septimana septima Levit 23.16. 13v Note ytthat Ptolomy's Canon, ytthat reputed most correct was found in a manuscript of Theon in England & printed first by & afterwards by Petavius in the end of his Rationarium. The remainder of the text on this page is written upside down. Note that Nehemias About BThe time of orour Saviours death many things are disputed. Some in the Apostolick age regarded not these kind of niceties. Those in yethe next began to take up several opinions One of yethe ancientest opionsopinions was ytthat orour Saviours preaching lasted but about one year of wchwhich mind was Clemens Alexandrinus Origen & Tertullian, Africanus & others. Afterward finding three successive passovers in St Iohns gospel, they divers began to be an & some fansying four divers took up an opinions of betw 2 or 3 or thyears & somessome months & (as & yethe former opinion went down. And these authors of these opinions framing several recconings & computations thereupon (as ytthat from orour Saviours death to yethe Martyrdom of St Paul was so many years, to yethe destruction of Ierusalem so many that he died ofon this or that day of the month &c) some now who take up wthwith their opinions make the argue mainly from yethe authority & recconing of these authors, wchwhich is Lesbiam admovere regulāam. Laying a waving therefore these 14r See the Prophesies of Cotterus Christina & Drabitius published by Comenius. Nicolaitan i.e. a conqueror of yethe people. To him was given yethe key of yethe bottomless pit, that is to yethe angel, not to yethe starr Apoc 7. Twas this Angel & not the star wchwhich opened yethe bottomless pit. The Arabians cannot be better represented then by Locusts 1st because of their innumerable multitude: whence they are in yethe book of Iudges copmpared to Locusts. And yethe Midianites & yethe Amalekites & all yethe children of yethe east were in yethe valley as Locusts for number. 2dly because from Arabia came those swarms of Locusts wchwhich often covered both Egypt & Ethiopia 3dly because of yethe swiftnesse & of yethe conquests & greatness of yethe desolations made by yethe Saracens. All that have read yethe history of yethe Crusadoes, know, that yethe Christians in yethe end of yethe eleventh age found them Turks establisht in those four principall seats Nice, Damascus, Antioch & Aleppo &c The Turks are originally Scythians Tartars & Nomades people that had nothing but horsmen in their armies. The formidable infantry of the Turks was not instituted till about yethe year 1300 by Ottoman the founder of the Empire. Before that their chief strength was in Cavalry. The fals character of Antichrist is ytthat he is to be one single man of yethe Tribe of Dan, a great conqueror by arms, to reign in Ierusalem 312 yea natural years, rebuild yethe Temple there & reestablish yethe Mosaical service; to abolish yethe sacrifice of yethe Mass, compell Christians to renew their baptism overcome 3 kings Libya Egypt & Ethiopia, hate idols, be a Magitian, call himself God & yethe only God, kill yethe two witnesses Enoch & Elias 14v deny yethe coming of Christ in yethe flesh, do nothing in yethe name of Christ, stile himself yethe Messiah, conquer yethe whole world by arms, possess all sorts of treasure come in yethe end of yethe Roman Empire after yethe destruction thereof & universal preaching of yethe Gospel, bring fire from heaven & feign himself dead in order to counterfeit a ressurection. The court of Rome hath destroyed three kingdoms in Italy, that of yethe Lombards, that of yethe Goths & before these that of yethe Greeks, in I He hath overthrown the king of Naples, the king of Sycil Sicily & yethe king of Germany to make them his vassals. Vpon yethe whore's forehead Mystery i.e. Religion. The Greek Church did not separate from yethe Latin Church before yethe 10th century. The name of yethe Beast in yethe two sacred languages Hebrew & Greek is Romiyth & Lateinos. The name Mystery was formerly writ in the forepart of yethe Popes Miter. A Venetian author assures us of it & Ioseph Scaliger saith that he had seen them so marked. The Edict of Nantes was abrogated in Octob. 1685. A tenth part of yethe great City is one of yethe ten Kings. Now the spirit speaks saith expresly that in yethe latter times some shall depart from yethe faith, giving themselves up to deceiving spirits & Doctrines of Dæmons: & this through yethe fictions of lyars men whose consciences are seared wthwith a hot iron, [& through] forbidding to marry & commanding to abstain from meats &c 1 Tim. 4. This is yethe mystery of iniquity opposite to yethe mystery of godliness spoken of in yethe words 15r next preceding.